Live Thread: Cavs vs Pistons
2016-04-20
The Pistons are back in town tonight, and fresh off a $25,000 fine for criticizing the officials before halftime of Game 1, Stan Van Gundy has them ready to play. The focus this game? Limiting the Cavs’ second chance points and the 12 offensive rebounds Cleveland had in game one. For Cleveland, the keys will be thus.
- Continue to limit Andre Drummond’s impact offensively and defensively. This means inside/out bigs who can stretch the floor against him (Love and Frye), and tough defense to deny him lobs and limit his pick and roll opportunities. (Keep going under the screens with Reggie Jackson!)
- Keep attacking in transition and early post-ups and then swinging the ball to the shooters out of double teams and the secondary break.
- Spread the scoring. With the big game for the big three, Sunday, J.R. should get some open looks from three.
- Keep defending. This means overplaying the strong hand of Reggie Jackson and the Pistons’ guards, as well as limiting penetration. Try to ice the pick and roll!
- Set up LeBron as the roll man.
- Limit turnovers! Cavs did a fantastic job of this in game one.
- Close out on shooters! This was probably the worst part of Cleveland’s defense game one.
- Bring the energy off the bench. The Detroit bench outscored the Cavs’ 21-14, Sunday, and outrebounded them 10-7. Hopefully Delly and Shump can get their jumpers going. Hopefully Channing Frye plays.
- Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving, and LeBron James continuing to run brutally efficient offense.
JR SWISHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Another Delly asssist… and JR swishes love it
DELLY to LOVE! Great draw up by Lue!
Conspiracy Theory – the refs, some of the Cavs, or someone REALLY don’t want Justin Beiber to come to Cleveland. Just sayin’
What game you watchin?
Thought of that comment during the 1st half. 2nd half is a whole new game.
Maybe they really want Biebs to come to Cleveland
That LBJ triple…
https://twitter.com/cavs/status/722968086526070784
Delly or Lebron must be in the game to make the ball move it seems
Pistons are shooting 49% on da road against the best team in da East, our defense needs to step up especially going on da road for Game 3&4
Pistons does get too deep in the paint on drives, our perimeter defense needs to improve
oh wow , we actually get an offensive rebound, shocked
Great hustle by TT and RJ on that board!
Get it to UPG
I missed it… what does UPG stand for Un-Playable Giant?
Undefeated Playoff Genius referring to K Love. My favorite Colsism so far.
Offense bogging down without James.
That was a quick 5 seconds.
Thompson does such a good job on Drummond.
Lebron feeling he self with the pull up 3, u know he going shoot another 1
Did Delly disappear?
LBJ FOR THREEEEEEEE!!
James feeling it
What a turnaround J by LBJ!
Morris with the fake blood tablet a la WWF style.
Boom
So will Browns just draft Cardale now since they traded out of the two spot?
https://vine.co/v/iFI6pVPh29X
Cheerleaders. Love
No, I’m pretty sure the Eagles traded up for him. He’ll be gone by 8…
^ Sarcasm
Kev with only 8 pts but 2 very timely 3s.
UPG
Great shot by JR but he cannot run the breaks, Kyrie or Lebron need to be handling the ball
Wow SVG working the refs
Pistons doing good job blocking out TT. No boards at all.
Looks like he didn’t play much with the foul trouble though, right?
Exactly
Right
How do the Cavs only have three FT attempts? Let me guess… SVG?
Refs suck. Lue is our coaching gund
That and about three hundred extra passes instead of attempted layups. We should have more, but not many more
If you don’t count intentional fouls on Drummond the refs have called more fouls on the Pistons. And Cavs have taken a ton of jumpers.
Defense steps up.
Refs screwing us but we are still up 9
I don’t know how Ron finds time to coach the Pistons and keep up with his demanding porn schedule.
Thank goodness…we needed the last two minutes
Cavs offense under Lue is light years ahead of what they were doing under EuroGenius.
Do you recognize how massive a distance a light year is? Hyperbole is what hurts your credibility.
Hyperbole is the greatest thing ever
Too bad reality doesn’t back that up. Unless you are referring to just the period when KI was not playing.
It’s raining 3’s in this quarter. I thought JR was gonna throw an alley oop for Lebron, but that 3 will work
JR SWISHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
https://vine.co/v/iFI6MTXFFYh
Sweet shots by smith.
Fred just said JR is hotter than sriacha sauce.
I think Lue is our coaching Gundy again.
Yeah, Lue told his players to make 54% of their threes at double their season average. Them’s good coaching.
I hope more coaches don’t catch on to that strategy. It’s working pretty well for us.
Haha lebron’s disgust at Morris was amazing. That will earn him at least two free throws when Morris goes ape
JR has such an awkward dribble
Hey free throws finally!!
Cavs offense looks great
Can I just say our ball movement looks so sick since th end of the season. It’s all to Dow ITG Lebron not halting for 12 seconds anymore
LBJ THREE!!!
https://vine.co/v/iFIrv3zt3xV
James!!!!!
KLOVE!!
UPG
https://vine.co/v/iFIru6tM3zi
U P G
So how many points is the Lue / van grundy matchup worth? 4.5 for the Pistons?
That seems fair
Have the Cavs shot a free throw yet?
Stan is the gd worst
#FreeDelly
JR needs to remember how to run the break!
Why does LeBron always try the most ambitious passes with the least skilled players?! Ahhhhh
Irving is so good this game!!
Did not look like an offensive foul….is that just me?
I guess they just allow moving screens now?
Draymond Green’s version of the “crab walk”
I actually hate the Pistons again! Thx Marcus Morris!
Sorry guys… missed the first half
EG bring some D
http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/67/6740/I27Z100Z/posters/d-fence-defense-sign.jpg
Bad start again. KI with bad d on Jackson. Love needs to start scoring. These slow starts will get us killed later in the playoffs, if not this game.
Drummond killing us with that book shot
Caldwell-Pope is like Ray Allen now, like what?
Caldwell-Pope was more like Mickael Pietrus just then…
Reggie Jackson seems a lot like what I wanted Dion Waiters to become
Yes
Such a correct but odd observation. It’s like saying “if that no-good son of mine had turned out for the best, he would be this fairly successful jerky kid I don’t like.”
But he would be OUR jerky kid, and that was always his appeal. I was on the Saint Weirdo bandwagon for far too long . . . I really wanted him to become someone “who could put up 30 any night” with nothing but attitude.
I know, it’s just that I hate Reggie Jackson so wishing someone I liked had turned out like him seems vaguely icky.
Hahahahaha yaaaaa…..
no defense
TT needs to stay out of foul trouble in this third quarter.
I wish we had a Drummond eraser.
Where’s 2010 Shaq when you need him…
(said no one ever)
Hee Hee. You guys are the best.
Executives at Golden Corral have said it many times…
Refs called 16 fouls on us in the first half. They called 6 on Detroit. If those numbers were close to even we’d be up 10.
You do realize Drummond was intentionally fouled eight times.
It IS nice to see JR Smith being JR SWISH in the playoffs
Did Kenny just call Delly “Villadenova”? And then there two Delladova’s. One of these years, he’ll get it right.
Needs to work on his fundamentals.
I’m sure that was intentional. Kenny is a snob.
Do we not have anyone else besides Lebron that will drive to the basket?
The fact that the #1 team has to resort to the “hack a free throw” strategy to compete against an #8 team is rather appalling… One would think it would be the opposite.
Seeding has nothing to do with it. It was a good strategy. Don’t let your upset of Cleveland not blowing out a very good Detroit team blind you from the right basketball play. It’s far from “appalling.”
I’m sorry but I don’t see it the way you do. I hate the “hack a player” strategy and honestly, if that was the only way we could win a championship, I wouldn’t feel as if we won it, but rather “cheated” our way onto one. It seems as if the Pistons can do/get whatever they want against this team and we are unable to come to a team strategy to stop them, besides the above mentioned. I know a lot has to do with how the teams match and it seems like the Pistons match really well against us…… Read more »
Well it’s the first half of game 2, so…
I know I know lol. Let’s see what Lue comes up with for the second half ;)
Ouch.
I was totally cool with the Hack-an-Iggy last year…